Releases: Azure/Azure-Media-Services-Explorer
Explorer 3.44.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 3.44.0.0 (September 8, 2016) brings the following features and improvements :
- New Import from SAS Container Path option
- AMS Explorer now generates SAS locators that include the list permission
- A SAS Container Path can be used to import an asset to the current AMS account. This is useful to share multiple files asset or a live archive with another user using only one URL.
- Additional advanced features with Media Encoder Standard (MES)
- Insert black video, non interleaved mode for audio streams
- Update to Azure Media Analytics (Redaction, Face detection)
Explorer 3.43.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 3.43.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :
- Support for Azure Media Telemetry (Private Preview - activated on selected accounts)
- initial configuration, update and deletion (management menu)
- loading and displaying telemetry data for Streaming Endpoints and Channels
- Media Services Account ID field added to the logon window
- Video Cropping with Media Encoder Standard (MES)
- Visual Region Editor
- This editor displays the asset thumbnails and provides a way to define the cropping region for MES, and detection regions for Media Analytics OCR and Motion Detection
- Supports rectangles and polygones when available
- Uses the output of an "asset analysis job" which generates 100% resolution thumbnails. Settings can be changed in options.
- New First Quality Bitrate for HLS setting in filters
- New tab in job details that displays the input and output assets
- New single asset output option in advanced processing / process asset(s) with multiple processors
- Locators can be cloned (same ID) when copying an asset between two accounts in two regions
- Credentials can be exported and imported using JSON files
- Fixes an issue with displayed type of multi MP4 files asset
- FairPlay support is GA. Specific icon for FairPlay protected assets
- Updated the Media Services SDK to version 3.7.0.1
- Bug fixes and improvements
Explorer 3.42.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 3.42.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :
- Detects WebVTT subtitles in the asset and pass them automatically to Azure Media Player
- Support for semaphore files in the watch folder mechanism for multi files asset upload.
- The semaphore is a XML file, compatible with the ones created by Rozhet. A sample file is provided.
- When a semaphore file is dropped to the watch folder, AMSE reads and uploads the listed files as a single asset.
- Media Analytics
- Update to Motion Detection (Media Analytics) to support new settings and features.
- A future version of AMSE will provide a visual regions editor to define regions for OCR and Motion Detection
- Update to other media analytics processors to display the JSON generated configuration
- In the tranfer tab, it's possible to manage dynamically the number of concurrent transfers : 1/2/3/4/unlimited
- New option to upload file(s) to asset(s) from the asset menus
- Adds a resize anchor to several Windows
- Adds support for manifest generation with m4a files
- Bug fixes and improvements
Explorer 3.41.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
There are also some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 3.41.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :
- Support for Apple FairPlay content protection
- See the announcement
- Note : you can run the Dynamic Encryption wizard several times if you want to setup multiple content protection schemes. For example : PlayReady/Widevine for DASH, PlayReady for Smooth and FairPlay for HLS. It's not possible to setup two different encryption schemes for the same protocol.
- Note : FairPlay uses a key which is different from the CENC key. So it's not possible to have the same key id for the CENC and FairPlay keys.
- Azure Media Video OCR private preview. Supported languages includes Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
- See the blog post
- Azure Media Content Moderator private preview
- See the blog post
- Other Media Analytics update
- Minor UI update
- New option to copy the subtitles generated by Indexer to the source asset (copy is done by AMSE after the completion of the job)
- If the source asset contains a primary file which is not an audio/video file, AMSE proposes to change the primary file to an audio/video file in order to take it as a source by the processor.
- Support for custom AES key delivery URL when key is delivered by AMS
- used by some customers in order to cache the key with a CDN
- Adds support for Ignore708Captions setting for live channels
- Critical performance improvement in the live tab when listing programs related to channel
- New features for transfers : transfers can be cancelled, and completed transfers can be cleared
- Fixed some issues with live archive copy. Better displays and manages the fragmented flag, and displays some warning when doing live archive copy
- Reorganization of the asset menu
- Updated the Media Services SDK to version 3.6.0
- Bug fixes and improvements
Explorer 3.40.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 3.40.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :
- Media Analytics Update
- See the Media Analytics announcement for NAB2016
- Azure Media Indexer 2 Preview. Supported languages includes: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese and Arabic
- Minor update to Emotion Detection UI
- Available also as public preview : face detection, video thumbnails, motion detection
- Support of Editing Decision List (EDL) in live stream/archive subclipping UI and Media Encoder Standard UI
- this allows some basic editing of the source asset when doing encoding or live extraction
- Other bug fixes and improvements
Explorer 3.39.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
There are some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 3.39.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :
- Multiple selection to update settings in batch mode
- Live channels, programs and streaming endpoints can be updated using multiple selection
- New setting to display related/none/all programs in the live tab
- Useful to increase UI performance when working on channels
- Added Progressive Download protocol for Dynamic Storage Decryption
- Azure Storage Import: new option to create one asset for each file selected
- Additional workflows for Premium Encoder (from tutorial)
- Update to manifest generation
- Fixes an issue with Media Encoder Standard overlay
- Fixes an issue with job and asset display when a parent asset has been deleted
- Other bug fixes and improvements
Explorer 3.38.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
There are some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 3.38.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :
- New Overlay feature now available for Media Encoder Standard
- Single asset mode (image must be in the source asset)
- Update to media analytics (private preview)
- Content protection minor updates
- Use of BaseLicenseAcquisitionUrl for Widevine and AES. The key ID not stored in the policy.
- UI update to specify the authorization policy option name
- Button to remove/delete an authorization policy option
- Option to display and edit the AlternateId property for assets
- Media Services SDK updated to 3.5.3
- Bug fixes and improvements
Explorer 3.37.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
New! There are some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
Version 3.37.0.0 brings the following features and improvements :
- A way to change the video index and audio indexes and languages for an existing encoding live channel (RTP)
- Update to Media Encoder Standard dialog box
- Update to thumbnails (percentage mode)
- Support for PreserveResolutionAfterRotation flag
- Bug fixes and improvements
Explorer 3.36.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
New! There are some nice Azure Media Services Step-by-Step tutorials using Azure Media Services Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- New Live Archive Integrity check. This feature checks the timestamps in the manifest and the segments in the blob storage for a live archive. It will detect timestamps in overlap or gap, and missing segments.
- Support for disable auto de-interlacing setting with Media Encoder Standard (MES)
- New feature to check and fix manifests which have a wrong systemBitrate attribute
- Channels, Programs and Streaming Endpoints can be sorted by clicking a column
- Update to support latest Azure Media Player update (PlayReady and Widevine tokens)
- Fixes an issue with text format when copying a preset from Chrome to Explorer
- Fixes an issue as InstallShield was not shipping the right version of some libraries
- Better dialog box for selecting a folder
- Bug fixes and improvements
Explorer 3.35.0.0
Azure Media Services Explorer is a tool for Windows that does upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live channels with Azure Media Services. Source code is also provided.
A general description is available here and there is a blog post on live encoding and Explorer.
Contact: [email protected]
This update brings the following features and improvements :
- New manifest generation feature : if an asset contains one or several MP4 files without a manifest (.ISM), user can generate a manifest and review it. New button is located in asset info/files tab.
- Bulk ingest update :
- Added support for Signiant Flight. New UI to specify the Signiant API Key and Server. The sigcli.exe command line is generated.
- Added AzCopy command line generation
- Encoding Reserved Units (Basic/Standard/Premium) renamed to Media Reserved Units (S1/S2/S3)
- Support for new silent audio track generation setting with Media Encoder Standard (MES)
- Added SAS locator information in the "Export to Excel" feature
- Live Encoding preset is displayed in the grid for live encoding channels
- Bug fixes and improvements